Central Middle School - Ceejay Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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fX I lLillilllEifliillliilSHEliii!iQ3iHIZlSii?!IiIF- Public Schools FORREST NASH, '25 Why let children go to school? Why should people be taxed immense sums each year in order to provide free public schools? Why not let each parent pay for the education of his own children, provided he desires to educate them? Suppose all the public schools of the land were to be closed tomorrow, and the seventeen million pupils that attend them were allowed to stay at home, or put to work in stores, factories, and on farms, and only those were educated whose parents could afford to send them to private schools. What kind of a country would we have? The first great purpose of public education is to increase the material prosperity of a nation, to raise its standards of life, so that its people shall have comfortable' homes, and lead happy lives. Education means more power-power to earn money, and make a living. The ignorant man always does the hardest and most poorly paid kind of work. He is the unskilled laborer who digs ditches, lays railroad ties, mines coal, and cleans the streets. Thousands of boys leave school each year for this purpose and may by this action, close behind them the door to progress. The second purpose of education is that education means more than the power to earn a living, but the power to enjoy things of greatest value in life. Last but the greatest of all sources of enjoyment to the educated man, are the wonders of nature around him. Knowledge means power to see what is good for the City, the State, and the Nation, History and civics, language and literature and mathematics,-all the studies of all the public schools broaden the individual and develop an all around manhood and womanhood. The public schools prepare boys and girls to do well their future part as citizens of our great Republic. CBeauty as an Qflid to Citizenship MARGARET AGIN, '25 The majority of us human beings, both young and old, derive pleasure in different degrees from things of beauty around us. A family of children grows up in a home where beautiful objects abound. A lovely garden is theirs to admire and play ing but too often it is taken for granted and as a matter of course that things beautiful should be theirs. They never notice the beauty of it until they see children living in adverse conditions, that is, in an unlovely home and yard with very little of artificial or natural beauty to delight their eyes. Then do they appreciate beauty more fully. But the real good we get from all things beautiful is the joy of creating beauty ourselves. It may be raising plants, laying out gardens and parks, chiseling a work of art from marble by deft touches, putting a picture upon canvas, building a mag- nificent building, decorating a house or church, or it simply may be to cut and fashion a beautiful garment, or to lay out a street. It may be doing your share as one in a community endeavor, but the joy we know when we create beauty is the best help we give ourselves in an endeavor to be good citizens, We feel, when we do a thing that adds a bit of beauty to the world that we are in harmony with our fellow man, be- cause most of us yearn for the beauty in life. i u61nis1aa5::ne:e:gaz:::a:azraa:Q:a'.u :sIszas.asazI4anrs:1asIvzas:esI1:sesrsanI:ass:alsza:Hssaeszaezsnsaisasiareamazasazaesiarez Page Ninety-eight